Texts to be Heard, Music to be Read.
Literacy shifted our priorities from our own senses and experiences to our intellect and understanding, and from our nature as social animals to individualism.
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Memorization
The Genesis of Memorization as a Piano Performance Practice.
Many of what people commonly believe about the history of memorizations turn out not to be based on any historical evidence. For example, Liszt and Clara Schumann are not the pianists who started the tradition of memorized performances.
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